I've recently discovered that the After Ed blog has a short video of Diane Ravitch discussing her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System. (See below.)
It's worth taking a look.
Not because of the content, which is much better served by reading the book, but as an exercise in …

I'd like to formally kick off a series of "book reviews of books I've only just begun to read." Recently I've been finding that the responses and questions I have at first blush are more interesting than those that I have after a book has worn me down a bit. So rather than "review" what …